AT&T Office@Hand vs MaestroConference

• It can handle multiple simultaneous voices very efficiently.
• Access across multiple devices seamlessly.
• The voice clarity is not compromised at all.

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• The number one strength of Maestro Conference is the ability for the host to create "break out" groups where members of the call can interact with each other in smaller groups as if they were in an in-person conference.
• Another quality of Maestro Conference that I love is the fact that the host can then "weave in and out" of the different break out groups, listening in, providing support and getting feedback. It's an incredibly tool that Maestro offers.
• Lastly I think Maestro Conference has excellent customer service.

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• It can include the video facility as well making it a wholesome experience for users.
• It sometimes malfunctions when the limited number of participants exceed.
• Early logins create an unwanted advantage to some participants. It should not be.

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• The call sound quality was often pretty poor, and we had a lot of trouble with calls being dropped. Over the years I would periodically throw in the towel and go back to Free Conferencing just to have reliable quality. But they only have 3 of 4 breakout rooms and I couldn't conduct the rooms easily. Then I try MC again to see if the engineering had improved. It was like a wave. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.
• The conductor interface has an annoying glitch wherein we could not change a persons attribute fields on the fly. I would interview my callers and assign them to one class or another based on their answers, and the partner up people into breakout rooms based on their answers. This meant editing the two attribute fields , and it just plain didn't work 75% of the time.
• Maestro Conference repositioned its business away from small educators like me, to large organizations like political action committees. The price became too high for me, and it just no longer made sense. I repositioned my product to work with less expensive and less complicated solutions.
• The add on features, like recording each conference room, were insanely expensive.
• VOIP and MC didn't mix. The MC dialer never worked. Neither did Skype. This meant that my international callers were out of luck. This was FRUSTRATING to say the least. Now I just use Skype. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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• There has been not one positive thing I can say about Office at Hand.
• [I feel] they have been nothing but an issue.
• My assigned customer service rep [seems to be] lacking if follow-up, follow through, knowledge of the product, and just seems to not care.
• When I get his boss, I usually get some resolution, but only some, and then I pushed by her back to him.
• Believe nothing they say and carve out hours to deal with them on the phone or by email.

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• When the monthly call with breakout rooms was working well I had a lot of good conversion. When it was not, because of sound quality of dropped calls, I was giving people a poor experience. Since I was using MC as the centerpiece of my TRIAL calls, it was a two edged sword.

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